Oh, the Hallowed Halls of Portraiture

Llyn Foulkes

Llyn Foulkes, The Time Has Come. Mixed media, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.

Currently at Kent Fine Art, New York – Llyn Foulkes: Bloody Heads.
October 27 – December 17, 2011. More exhibition images below.

Beginning in the early seventies, Foulkes turned up the volume of Baconian horror in his first series of portrait heads, keenly described by Rosetta Brooks in the catalogue for his traveling retrospective organized by the Laguna Art Museum in 1995:“Contemporary life is full of all kinds of monsters which many of us either ignore or conceal. Foulkes does neither. His art is constantly grappling with the social schizophrenia characteristic of America, including its inherent violence and its quiet vulnerability.”